I would never do a commercial if I thought it was offensive to anyone.

The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.

Any time an investment company has to spend heavily on advertising, it’s probably a bad business in which to invest.

If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.

We just seem to have lost all our morals and principles and values these days.

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

No public man can be just a little crooked.

I do think there should be some regulations on AI.

Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted… but to weigh and consider.

Competitions are a business, first and foremost.

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.

Richard Nixon was an evil man – evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency.

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.

One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.

The future of advertising is the Internet.

If a person is successful, we imagine they are probably also ethical, conscientious and deserving of their good fortune. This obscures the fact that many people who get ahead have done so by doing less than moral actions, which they cleverly disguise from view.

Laws control the lesser man… Right conduct controls the greater one.

I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

A President’s hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him.

Success consecrates the most offensive crimes.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

People who truly understand what is meant by self-reliance know they must live their lives by ethics rather than rules.

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it – not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits.

Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.

In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.

You’ve gotta understand that with branding and the way things are promoted, in our day and age, your older movie stars are not reachable or accessible because they’re not a part of the whole social media world.

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.

Of two evils, choose neither.

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.

I always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I don’t believe in the whole thing of just using other people’s money. I don’t think that’s right. I’m not going to ask other people to invest in something if I’m not prepared to do so myself.

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

A frustration I have is that a lot of people increasingly seem to equate an advertising business model with somehow being out of alignment with your customers. I think it’s the most ridiculous concept.

When governments rely increasingly on sophisticated public relations agencies, public debate disappears and is replaced by competing propaganda campaigns, with all the accompanying deceits. Advertising isn’t about truth or fairness or rationality, but about mobilising deeper and more primitive layers of the human mind.

The violence in the Bible is appalling.

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

What is permissible is not always honorable.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die.

In honorable dealing you should consider what you intended, not what you said or thought.

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

I’ve had big record label presidents look me in the face and say, ‚Your music sucks, you don’t know who you are, your music is all over the place, and we don’t know how to market this stuff. Pick a lane and come back to us.‘

And let’s be clear: It’s not enough just to limit ads for foods that aren’t healthy. It’s also going to be critical to increase marketing for foods that are healthy.

The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.

I do not recognize the right of the public to break in the front door of a man’s private life in order to satisfy the gaze of the curious… I do not think it right to dissect living men even for the advancement of science. So far as I am concerned, I prefer a post mortem examination to vivisection without anaesthetics.

It’s okay to eat fish because they don’t have any feelings.

States are not moral agents.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.